they found that the leaves reached six feet long, but they most likely grew even longer. Its appearance resembles a fern or palm tree, although the oldest tree fern fossil is younger, and palm ...

Giraldo studied insect damage on 284 fossil Eucalyptus leaves from the 52-million-year-old Laguna del Hunco fossil rainforest in Argentina and compared the damage patterns with over 10,000 modern ...

In order to understand how well the features of ginkgo leaves reflect the climate they grow in, we need to study leaves from trees growing in many different climates. Ginkgos are the perfect plant for ...

We are researching how the cells of leaves on ginkgo trees have changed over time and how we can use this knowledge to learn about the ancient atmosphere of the Earth. Fossil Atmospheres offered ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on ...